BRD best socket stat now ?

[Slyqc]

I'm not a fan of DET on Bard in 3.0 since you don't have Auto-Attacks anymore.
In my Oppinion what you need with your bard in 3.4 :
687 Accuracy (With Baked Pipira Pira you'll get 705, seems to be accuracy cap for 3.4)

Then you go Crit > SS

Not only will SS will oost your DoT's but it will gve you the ability to move a lot better around the place while fighting. If my AST is giving me an Arrow card I can basically move after 0.1 second of my casts, which is pretty good if you're going in fights that requires a lot of movements.
I'm currently at 816 skills speed with a 1.39 cast time and a 2.32 recast. If you have invigorate you shouldn't go out of TP in fights, you should be about 600 tp every time you Invigorate is up, unless you've been fed with lots of Arrow cards.

Here's an exemple of what I'm parsing on Sophia Extreme at the moment.
https://www.fflogs.com/rankings/char...1/4/#boss=1034

[Alwa]

Does anyone know the caps for crit and sks? or a good stopping point?

[ruskie]

The sks has certain stops so might want to look that up. Crit is basically as much as you can get.

[Yeol]

I've seen people with 900 SkS, they did not complain about TP.

Simply put, cap your Accuracy then go for Crit. Can't add more Crit? add SkS.
Accuracy > Crit > SkS

[Vifrague]

For my relic I did max critical and skill speed and I'm regretting it I've played with another bard who had the relic but had the Det skill speed, acc build and I'm almost positive he was out DPSing me

[Alistaire]

Once you got you Acc capped you want to go for Crit > SkS > Det

I've tested both SkS and Det on my BRD. SkS gave me bigger numbers than Det.
We do not have a turret like MCH nor relay on auto attacks. We have DoTs, aka more reason to go for SkS.

And det and sks are close enough that if you play either MCH or NIN, go for det on accessories where crit is already maxed. (.168 sks .166 det for brd, mch and nin both have a significantly higher det weighting than sks)

[Vifrague]

Is there a cap on Det Ima go look at it again but I could have sworn I put a tier V Det on a piece of armor and my determination didn't move pass 652

[Ilan]

Is there a cap on Det Ima go look at it again but I could have sworn I put a tier V Det on a piece of armor and my determination didn't move pass 652

Look again, there is nothing like a cap in that low region of 650. The only thing that caps your secondarys is the gear itself.